Mandy Moore's First New Album Since 2009 Is Out Soon, And She's So Ready

Since 2016, Mandy Moore has contained it down as an emotional anchor on award-winning NBC crier This Is Us. She's long been an actress — her roles as Tangled's Rapunzel and in early-2000s teen dramas like A Walk to Remember mean a lot to a lot of people. However she's been a singer-songwriter for even longer, though her music career has been on pause for a decade.


On Tuesday (January 14), though, Moore picked up the microphone once again to share "Save A little bit for Yourself," a savvy slice of rootsy pop-rock that leads off a upcoming new album. That's right: Mandy Moore's first album in 11 years, Silver Landings, will be out March 6.


Silver Landings will be Moore's first album since 2009's Amanda Leigh. She also dropped the song's video, which finds Moore leading a musical group — one that includes her spouse, Dawes's Taylor Goldsmith, on guitar — as she sings about perseverance: whenever someone takes the perfect of you / Don't let them take the rest of you."


In a statement, Moore called the tune order of the other half of a love song that we don't routinely talk about or acknowledge. Sure, we should open ourselves up, let people in and love them as wholly as possible although none of that carries any water if we're not taking care of ourselves first and foremost. It could may not be as romantic, although it's a similarly key piece of the equation."


"Save A little bit for Yourself" is the third Moore track in the past five months right following the aching "When I Wasn't Watching" and the soulful "I'd Rather Lose." All three are set to appear on Silver Landings. Moore is also taking her new music on the road this year, from March through May, alongside Bedouine and Madison Cunningham.


In February 2019, Moore spoke out against her "psychologically abusive" ex-husband Ryan Adams in a New York Times piece, and also a couple of ladies (including musician Phoebe Bridgers) who described Adams's abuse, manipulation, and sexual misconduct. "His controlling behavior essentially did block my ability to prepare new connections in the industry while in a very pivotal and potentially lucrative time — my entire mid-to-late 20s," Moore said.


She elaborated on the elation she feels right now, being able to prepare music, in a Instagram post announcing the album. "It feels so good to be stepping assuredly into this next chapter of my life as a woman and performer, with an album of songs I couldn't be more thrilled with or prepared to share," Moore wrote. "Having music back in my life makes me feel like a more complete version of myself, in ways I wasn't even expecting."


Check out "Save A little bit for Yourself" above, then dig into her infectious 2003 take on XTC's "Senses Working Overtime," which appeared on her all-covers album, Coverage. It's killer.